Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-04-27
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Ripe watermelons in Yuma. DiptheriA is prevalent in Tucson. Yuma is on the verge of rsal sstat 1 boom.
 A new paper is soon to bs iasued il Flurence.
 D. W. Hunssker has purchased tn
 Wilcox Stockman. Harvest will commence in few dsys in the Salt river valley.
 J.J Stein has engaged in the rea estate business in Yuma.
 Bids for the city hall bonds, Pheniz will be opened May l9. X matrimonial boom has struck th, Silver King mining camp. Dr. II. w. Purdy has been sppointes quarantine officer At Noyales. Four patients have been dischargss from the Insane asylum, cured. A gigantic canal irrigation scheme i in proce-s oi formation at Yuma. A chapter of the order of the EasterI Star has been instituted 1t Phenix. Two new coAches :have been plAces on the Phenix & Msricops railroad. ] Ex-Mayor GAnz, of phenix. and Mayor Porter are both talked of for reelection The liqaor dealers of Cochise count, are organizing to contest the licens, law.
 The money has been subscribed fol the erection of sampling works al Tucson.
 The small hamlets of American Flag and Mammoth have subscribed $l5 t tiic Mics sword. A canton of PAtriarchs Militant, 1. O 0. F., will be instituted in Phenix, nex
 Tuesday evening.
 The Phenix rxlroad will reach Temps lhis week, and will bs completed t Phenix, June 1st.
 Supervisors of Mohavs county have adopted plans and specifications fol Il nvw courthouse at Kingmsn.
 It is rumored that the Tombstone custom house will be ordered moved t some place nearer the Sonora line.
 The strike of the brAkemen on thi. division of the Southern Pacific com pany, Listed just twenty-four hours.
 The man Knith, arrested st Globe has been identified as Springer. the Ssr Bernard,no wife murderer. Within the lAet three months nor, land has been sold in and around tn, town of Tempe, than for two year past.
 The N"gales Frontier has change1 hands, Crawford Brothers retiring anC Rev. McFawn assuming the manage ment.
 The Star says: "The Phenix Gazette has only he-n le .sed t' Governor Zulick with the privilege of purchasing within a year."
 Twenty-nine licenses have been takeI out in Tucson under the new law rwenty-two of them were paid undel protest.
 Mes.rs. Ben. and Briggs Goodrich Marcus. X. smith and Webster Stree have formed X Law co-partnenhip 1T Phenix.
 The Star says the fruit crop for th, present year w,il be the largest evel rai,sd in Tucson, ss there hAs been ne frost th's year. Phenix Is tO have steam fire engine from the Ahrns Manufacturing ccm psny, of Cincinnati. It will arrive som, time next week. k. A Hume, of the Citizen, discovered Mexican in the act of stealing hi. horses. Tue Mexican got away, but without the Hn1m1ie. A company has undertaken the projec, of building canal from point on the Colorado river, twenty miles above Yuma, to the Sonors line.
 The Upitel States grand jury ai Tucson nund three indictments-two on charge Of fencing in public Land, and one for selling whi-ky to an Indian
 The burial of Lieutenant Mott. U nited States army, who WAS murdered st San Carlos hy an Indian, occurred ai Brouckville, New York, on the 18th instant.
 The sheriff of Pima county gives notice that he will csuse every dealer in liquors at wholesale or retail to be ar rested that does not come up ct once and pay the license.
 The trial of B. E. Hamilton, for . murder committed in Nogales several months since, will take place in Tucson. The defedant will be ably defended by Cameron King and Zabriskie.
 Five soldit rs have been held by the justice of the peace in Cochise county, to appear before the next grand jury fol arprcpriating cattle belonging to the Chiricahua Cattle company.
 Two men were before United States Commissioner Stein of Yuma, Saturday charged with selling wh-ky to Indiana They waived examination and were cent to Phenix to await action of the United States grand jury.
 The five Tonto Indians who have been rIiding south and west of Globe and ir the rontO Basin, have been captured and are now in the guard house st ssI Carlos. They are to be tried in ths counties where the depredstions yer, committed.
 The surveyor general has awarded the contract for the survey of the nortl houndaryof the San Carlos Indian reser VI IT vf